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Kirk Nugent is a poet with passion. If you have ears to hear, then listen.  And then go do! [youtube]qVT-Quxd2PE[/youtube]

  I thought I would have a greater sense of nostalgia upon my return to the Rock, instead I was greeted with ambivalence and massive piles of rubble.  March is the month of Founder’s Day in which West Point grads celebrate the founding of the United States Military Academy.  The...

I hit a bird yesterday, or rather a bird hit me. I was travelling back up the M5, going 90mph, when I heard this awfully loud crack. At first I thought a rock had hit the windscreen, but then out of my rearview mirror, I saw feathers floating in the...

If you’re one of them militant vegitarians, this video might help to strengthen your cause.  I haven’t tried the experiment myself, but as soon as I have the opportunity to slap some pork in a dish, I’ll give it a try.  But as you can already see, I do enjoy...

  This past week or so I have a huge demand on my intellectual reserves so there hasn’t been much time left over for blogging.  But no worries, I shall endeavour to persevere.  I’ve been doing some research on African legends.  I thought I’d share a few of the stories...

I want to go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voices of the siren’s call, to feel the pull of the stars, to prowl the spaces between and betwixt.  The night calls… [youtube]yFZHWGUz-t8[/youtube]

(Picture:  a sketch I did from an advertisment for cars of all things!) My girl’s a pretty girl She is a city girl And I’d do most anything To keep her in style My girl has a long long nose Just like a garden hose But I’d do most anything...

Maybe I just don’t get out much because I had no idea these things existed.  Or maybe I’ve just been living in England too long and need to get myself back across the Big Pond and find out what’s going over there!  I like my coffee straight up – black,...

I attended the Professional Speakers Association meeting the other night and one the keynote speakers gave a presentation on purpose.  His theme was that we should live our lives on purpose not on accident.  He said the way to find your purpose is to align your true core values with your...

  “The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.  The player on the other side is hidden from us.  We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient.  But also...

  (Picture: a digital print I made called Savage Peace, click image for larger view) Yesterday it was reported that abortions set a new record for one month in Britain.  Marie Stopes, which performs about a third of the abortions in Britain, conducted 5,992 abortions in January.  The question is...

If you open your eyes in the morning and you are still breathing, then you are alive.  Every thing else is a bonus. (Picture: somewhere on manuevers in Germany) Part of my training as an Infantry Officer required me to go to Ranger School, which is suppose to primarily be...

  Whatever happened to good old fashioned hedonism, you know, the doctrine that states that pleasure is good and that pursuing anything other than pleasure is absurd and irrational? The only thing we pursue these days, it seems, is work, work, and more work, so we can buy more things we...

(Picture: Birmingham, New Street) We live in a consumer society and it runs on a simple principle – our lives will be better if we buy this car, own this home, eat this food, use that mobile phone, drink this beer, or wear this brand of clothes.  We have allowed ourselves...

(picture, created in photoshop, click here to see a larger view) “Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.” – Martin Luther Martin Luther didn’t have much good to say about reason.  He likened reason to the Devil’s bride, a “pretty whore” that comes in and thinks she’s...

I like to collect things.  I sketched this off of a pub wall in Bristol.  Click on the picture for a bigger view.

  (Picture, an original digital print I made entitled, why gentlemen really prefer whores)  In keeping with my friend Tisha’s post today, I thought I’d add a few reason why we should all be out there romping in the sack with our favorite guy or gal.  Sex, when practiced safely, contributes greatly to...

  Three ways to increase your intelligence: 1.  Cultivate a thirst for information and continually expand the source, scope and intensity of the information you receive. 2.  Revise your reality often.  Test and retest your reality maps and seek new metaphors to understand what is happening now and how it...

In See You at the Top, Zig Ziglar tells a story about a young business executive who took some work home to complete for an important meeting the next day.  Every few minutes his five-year-old son would interrupt his chain of thought.  After several such interruptions, the young executive spotted...